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Book Making Lahore Modern

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  • Author : William J. Glover
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452913382
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Making Lahore Modern written by William J. Glover and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin—was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally distinct city center adjacent to the old walled city, administered under new methods of urban governance. In Making Lahore Modern, William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore. In particular, he focuses on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization came to share: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. This belief in the power of the physical environment to shape individual and collective sentiments, he argues, links the colonial history of Lahore to nineteenth-century urbanization around the world. Glover highlights three aspects of Lahore’s history that show this process unfolding. First, he examines the concepts through which the British understood the Indian city and envisioned its transformation. Second, through a detailed study of new buildings and the adaptation of existing structures, he explores the role of planning, design, and reuse. Finally, he analyzes the changes in urban imagination as evidenced in Indian writings on the city in this period. Throughout, Glover emphasizes that colonial urbanism was not simply imposed; it was a collaborative project between Indian citizens and the British. Offering an in-depth study of a single provincial city, Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism. William J. Glover is associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan.

Book The Rule of the Clan

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  • Author : Mark S. Weiner
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-03-12
  • ISBN : 0374252815
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Rule of the Clan written by Mark S. Weiner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the world. It examines the constitutional principles and cultural institutions from medieval Iceland to modern Pakistan.

Book A Guide to Reference Materials on India

Download or read book A Guide to Reference Materials on India written by N. N. Gidwani and published by Jaipur, India : Saraswati Publications. This book was released on 1974 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography on India; includes periodicals.

Book The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab

Download or read book The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab written by Rajit K. Mazumder and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years. Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military men, police officers) constituted a miniscule minority of the Indian population. That a few thousand British men dominated so many million Indians for so long via native collaborators (feudal princes, educated babus, peasant recruits) has long been known. This book looks closely at the Indian army in order to show precisely how collaboration worked to sustain a national empire and a local economy. Show More Show Less.

Book The Garrison State

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  • Author : Tan Tai Yong
  • Publisher : SAGE
  • Release : 2005-05
  • ISBN : 9780761933366
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Garrison State written by Tan Tai Yong and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the province`s position as the `sword arm` of the Raj. The militarisation of the administration in the Punjab was characterised by a conjunction of the military, civil and political authorities. This led to the emergence of a uniquely civil-military regime, a phenomenon that was not replicated anywhere else in British India, indeed in the Empire. Analysing these events, this book: - Studies the manner in which the Punjab became the main recruiting ground for the Indian Army - Looks at how certain districts were selected for military recruitment, and the factors motivating the `military classes` among the Punjabis to join the Army - Discusses the effects of the First World War on the recruitment process in the Punjab - Highlights the role the civil-military regime played in the politics of the Punjab, its survival after the Second World War and the manner in which it handled the demand for Pakistan and the subsequent partitioning of the province.

Book Punjab District Gazetteers  Mandi state  rev  1920

Download or read book Punjab District Gazetteers Mandi state rev 1920 written by Punjab (India) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages

Download or read book Author Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages written by National Library (India) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages

Download or read book Author Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages written by Kolkata (India). Imperial library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kashmiri Pandits

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  • Author : Henriette M. Sender
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The Kashmiri Pandits written by Henriette M. Sender and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kashmiri Pandits have long played a vital role in Indian politics, and have made outstanding contributions to Indian culture and society. This study attempts to present a balanced history of the Pandits, drawing on both documented fact and legendary history. An important focus of the latter analysis is the use made, by a group vulnerable to changes in the "host" society, of reconstructed versions of historical tradition when the need to conform assumed primary importance. Sender consequently provides an invaluable analysis of the nature of a minority cultural group.

Book

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  • Author : Saʻīd Bhuṭṭah
  • Publisher : ravi kumar
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9699199024
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book written by Saʻīd Bhuṭṭah and published by ravi kumar. This book was released on 2007 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytical study of laudatory songs sung during the wars between various tribes of Punjab (Pakistan) from 16th to 19th century.

Book The Genealogist

Download or read book The Genealogist written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord

Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire and Islam

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  • Author : David Gilmartin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Empire and Islam written by David Gilmartin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tensions inherent in the structure and ideology of colonial organization thus provide the backdrop for the study. Gilmartin's extensive use of private papers, biographies, and autobiographies of prominent as well as less prominent political leaders helps give this study a balanced viewpoint. He also draws on a range of popular and private Urdu materials that lend the book an authentic voice."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature  and British and American Authors  Living and Deceased  from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: